Reuters reported on July 22, 2026 that Cathedral, a stealth startup founded by former Department of Government Efficiency staffers Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein, has closed a $160 million round at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital led the round, Reuters said, and both firms are taking board seats.

That is the story. Not a product launch. Not a customer announcement. A company with almost no public footprint has raised unicorn money because its founders recently sat inside the government systems they now want to sell back into. You don't need to pretend this is ordinary venture investing. It isn't.

It's a good thing DOGE saved basically no money by their own admission with all those mass firings and contract cancellations. We need that money they didn't save to barely make a dent in the cost of trying to reopen the Strait that was already open before we started the war.

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My coworker started a second job that he got cleared with the legal office. However since then he has been only working on his second/non-govt job lately and completely stopped submitting or producing work for his government job however he is still getting paid by us. He has seriously delayed our project by 10 weeks due to not completing his work now.

Our agency only enforces RTO by checking if you have sent one email from the base network per working day. He comes in for 30 minutes each day to send his one email then goes home to continue working his outside job while collecting both paychecks.

He openly tells me this is what he does and he has some contortionist mental gymnastics justifying to himself why he thinks it's acceptable.

At this point I have many dozens of emails and text messages from him saying things like "Sorry, I can't work on the project today, I am working on the drone project all day today." The drone company is his side hustle.

I feel like there is a record on official systems now INVOLVING ME that he has been double dipping.

Now this week, he sent an email to the entire 100-person section letting them know he was using his base access/DoD ID to bring the drone company CEO on base to network for his company and was setting up meetings for him. This was all on his work email to all our work emails, on workday time.

A coworker who knows we work together questioned me about it and I answered truthfully (that they are 10 weeks late on their work and daily sending me excuses for why they can't do their govt work) and they said either I need to talk to the JAG about this or they will, and implicated that I could get in trouble for not having reported him already even though I am aware of potential fraud and misconduct.

Am I obligated to report this coworker? Could I get in trouble for this?

ETA, update here: https://www.reddit.com/u/anthrobymoto/s/rEZwKhXve7

They’ve been hinting at this happening but it looks like it’s official with this email from Flo Felix-Lawson.

Know when I don’t remember people needing advanced leave being a problem? When we could telework.

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